Aksrockets
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Alright people, It's time for another build. This one will be good (I hope).
I was going to write up a big, long description, but let's face it. Nobody reads those. I'll make this quick and painless.
The "Playin' With Fire" will be an all carbon fiber 3in Minimum diameter, designed to handle a 75/7600 motor. It will be all handmade (come on, you guys should know my style by now). The only pre-made part I'm planning on buying in the Nosecone. The tube will be hand wrapped and the fins will be pressed at home. It will be standard Dual Deployment, using an RRC3 and a Stratologger altim.
Okay, here's a little bit of a longer description of each component. I lied when I said this was going to be short.
Nosecone:
Right now this is a toss up between a BadAzz VonKarmen, a PR Fillament wound and a Shockwave 6-1 VK. It'll all come down to price, availability and strength. As of right now, I'm leaning towards the Shockwave. I'm liking that 6-1 look!
Body Tube:
5 wraps of 2x2 twill 3K carbon. Laid up with USC epoxy. Probably a slow, but it depends on the temperature.
Fins:
1/16in G10 core with 2-3 layers of 12oz spread tow carbon on each side. Aluminum tipped. More on that later.
Fin attachment. Attached with JB weld or Aeropoxy. Carbon fiber fillets. 3 layers of Carbon Fiber tip to tip. The first two will be a Carbon/Kevlar hybrid. The Carbon/Kevlar cloth was kindly donated by Ken A (known 'round these parts as Kenstarr)
Altimeter Bay:
Made my Mason H. He's particularly good at that stuff and I'm not. He'll be building it, but I'll be wiring it.
Recovery:
Small drouge at apogee. Main 50in at 1000' or so.
Motor:
This will be interesting. Manny Ballestero volunteered to make the motor for this thing. Knowing his motor making track record so far, I've already bought double strength plastic trashbags in the somewhat likely event of a carbon fiber sky-pinata. It'll will be a full 75/7600 motor. Not sure on the propellant yet. That's up to Manny.
Is anybody still reading this?
Anyways, this will be flying at some Black Rock launch next summer. Possibly Aeronaut or MudRoc, I'm free for both, it just depends on Manny's schedule.
I won't be building my previous L2 rocket - the Shockwave 54 -. This will instead take it's place. I'm thinking about an L3200 for my L2.
How about an Openrocket file and some screenshots:
View attachment Playin' With Fire .ork
Building will begin in September.
Alex
I was going to write up a big, long description, but let's face it. Nobody reads those. I'll make this quick and painless.
The "Playin' With Fire" will be an all carbon fiber 3in Minimum diameter, designed to handle a 75/7600 motor. It will be all handmade (come on, you guys should know my style by now). The only pre-made part I'm planning on buying in the Nosecone. The tube will be hand wrapped and the fins will be pressed at home. It will be standard Dual Deployment, using an RRC3 and a Stratologger altim.
Okay, here's a little bit of a longer description of each component. I lied when I said this was going to be short.
Nosecone:
Right now this is a toss up between a BadAzz VonKarmen, a PR Fillament wound and a Shockwave 6-1 VK. It'll all come down to price, availability and strength. As of right now, I'm leaning towards the Shockwave. I'm liking that 6-1 look!
Body Tube:
5 wraps of 2x2 twill 3K carbon. Laid up with USC epoxy. Probably a slow, but it depends on the temperature.
Fins:
1/16in G10 core with 2-3 layers of 12oz spread tow carbon on each side. Aluminum tipped. More on that later.
Fin attachment. Attached with JB weld or Aeropoxy. Carbon fiber fillets. 3 layers of Carbon Fiber tip to tip. The first two will be a Carbon/Kevlar hybrid. The Carbon/Kevlar cloth was kindly donated by Ken A (known 'round these parts as Kenstarr)
Altimeter Bay:
Made my Mason H. He's particularly good at that stuff and I'm not. He'll be building it, but I'll be wiring it.
Recovery:
Small drouge at apogee. Main 50in at 1000' or so.
Motor:
This will be interesting. Manny Ballestero volunteered to make the motor for this thing. Knowing his motor making track record so far, I've already bought double strength plastic trashbags in the somewhat likely event of a carbon fiber sky-pinata. It'll will be a full 75/7600 motor. Not sure on the propellant yet. That's up to Manny.
Is anybody still reading this?
Anyways, this will be flying at some Black Rock launch next summer. Possibly Aeronaut or MudRoc, I'm free for both, it just depends on Manny's schedule.
I won't be building my previous L2 rocket - the Shockwave 54 -. This will instead take it's place. I'm thinking about an L3200 for my L2.
How about an Openrocket file and some screenshots:
View attachment Playin' With Fire .ork
Building will begin in September.
Alex
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